Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.1 times smaller than France.
France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 48.23% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (67.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
France
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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